Heine : Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet & author whose lyrics, ballads, & essays dwelt on German literature, politics & philosophy.
... slight mistakes in the rhythm and turns of language; but the only serious blunder is the "seductive vampire". There are of course echoes — a mixture of Christina Rossetti and Heine (I don't know if she has read translations of Heine, it may be an indirect influence); but that was inevitable. I have suggested a few changes (in addition to yours) for the sake of perfection; but, even as it is, the poem ...
... Aufklärung, in French les Lumières ). German Romanticism presented the world with some of the greatest novelists, poets, philosophers and musicians: the literary men Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Heine, Hölderlin; the philosophers Fichte, Schlegel, Hegel, all of them having to define themselves against Kant, paragon of the Aufklärung; and musicians of the stature of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and... Judentums, sold in enormous numbers and were reprinted till the end of the Third Reich. What the nationalist literature did not promulgate were the visionary predictions of a Romantic like Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), who was a Jew. “Christianity – and this is its nicest merit – has somewhat softened the crude German fighting spirit but could not eradicate it, and when the taming Talisman, the Cross ...
... soul. A strange light was shed on my wondering when Sri Aurobindo remarked apropos of an early poem by my sister Minnie that she was surely a bom poet, although here and there were some gleams from Heine and Christina Rossetti. Minnie had not read either of these poets. But I made an astonishing discovery. I came upon a portrait of Christina done by her brother Dante Gabriel, which bore an extraordinary ...
... characters. They make up that brilliant and confusedly complex, but often crude and unfinished literature, stretching from Rousseau and Chateaubriand to Hugo and taking on its way Goethe, Schiller and Heine, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelley, which forms a hasty transition from the Renascence and its after-fruits to the modernism of today which is already becoming the modernism of yesterday. Much of ...
... intellectual pose and, whatever genius may be expended upon it, this kind cannot remain long alive. That is the secret of the failure of modern romanticism in Germany and France. In Germany, Goethe and Heine alone got away from this falsity and were able to use this strain in its proper way as one enriching chord serving the complex harmonic purpose of the intelligence; the rest of German literary creation ...
... 79—God is infinite Possibility. Therefore Truth is never at rest; therefore, also, Error is justified of her children. 80—To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. Yes, he means that what is true at one moment is no longer true at another. And that's what justifies the children of Error. ...
... -in temperament and character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great musicians, poets and idealists, Goethe and Heine and Wagner and Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and ...
... 16, 25, 119, 159, 205-6, 211,2H, 238-41, 244-6 HADAMARD, PROF., 302 Haeckel, 140 Hamlet, 186-90 Harappa,238,243 Heard, Gerald, 260 Hegel, 318 Heine, 88 Henry, the Great, 90 Hera, 220 Heraclitus, 150,211,329 Hennes, 220 Hibbert Journal, the, 251 Himalayas, the, 54, 100 Hinduism, 54, 110, ...
... said Erinna. "To the artist but not to the critic." "How would you define Love, Julian?" asked Corydon. Page 5 "Give me a moment to think." "You will be harshly criticised." "Heine speed me! How will this do—the smile of a drunken God." There was applause. "Ah but it is perfect" exclaimed Dufresne between a laugh and a sigh. "But Marc might give us a better" suggested ...
... 79—God is infinite Possibility. Therefore Truth is never at rest; therefore, also, Error is justified of her children. 80—To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. Yes, he means that what is true at one time is no longer true at another. And this is why "Error is justified of her children ...
... in philosophy, in science, the great poetic word has burst out rarely: one brief and strong morning time illumined by the calm, large and steady blaze of Goethe's genius and the wandering fire of Heine, afterwards a long unlighted stillness. In the North here or there a solitary genius, Ibsen, Strindberg. Holland, another Teutonic country which developed an art of a considerable but almost wholly ...
... modernism of today which is already becoming the modernism of yester-day" - the literature which stretches in France from Rousseau and Chateaubriand to Hugo and takes on its way Goethe, Schiller and Heine in Germany and covers in England Burns and Byron and the five names that stand out in the annals of the second phase of Romanticism and give to it not only, as the others do, its distinction from both ...
... secondary place and mostly absorbed into a higher motive. But even on the Continent a stir of rarefied puissance is occasionally at work and its presence is felt in moments of wistful fancy from Heine: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam Lm Norden auf kahler Hoh. Ihn schlafert; mit weiber Decke Umhiillen ihn Eis und Schnee. Er traumt von einer Palme, Die, fern im Morgenland ...
... 151 and, whatever genius may be expended upon it, this kind cannot remain long alive. That is the secret of the failure of modem romanticism in Germany and France. In Germany, Goethe and Heine alone got away from this falsity and were able to use this strain in its proper way as one enriching chord serving the complex harmonic purpose of the intelligence; the rest of German literary creation ...
... God is infinite Possibility. Therefore Truth is never at rest; therefore, also, Error is justified of her children. 80) To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. 81) God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also ...
... ‘Luckily Sri Aurobindo and I have met at this point’, the Mother would say afterwards. One of his aphorisms goes as follows: ‘To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes.’ For reasons unknown to Nirodbaran — ‘Let it have no name,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo — Sri Aurobindo in his correspondence with him one day ...
... —in temperament and character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great musicians, poets and idealists, Goethe and Heine and Wagner and Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and ...
... bathing, the extraordinary drunkenness which has overtaken hundreds of thousands of men and women, the romantic fever, the mystic ecstasy, the kind of sacred delirium by which they are possessed.” 512 Heine’s prediction was coming true, Thor was swinging his hammer again. The German youth, around their camp fires, during their treks and their ceremonies of initiation and dedication at sacred sites, was ...
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